So Much for No Strings Attached

Chapter 19 Nagini Reveals All

 

To kill his father.

 

If Lucius was overprotective of his son and heir who had lived a safe and sheltered life with no war marring his life. Lucius knew that Draco was exceptionally spoiled by both Lucius and Narcissa. Still whatever parental protectiveness Lucius felt to Draco it was nothing compared to the overprotectiveness the Dark Lord was sure to feel to his only child.

 

Harry was the only reminder of the love that had been taken from him by one fearful madman. Add that to the fact that Dumbledore had been plotting both the Dark Lord and Harry's death from the moment of Harry's conception the Dark Lord had every reason to be overprotective. Lucius would have destroyed the world if anyone had even thought of doing to Draco what Dumbledore had done to Harry.

 

And Lucius may be a Dark and ruthless man but he was not the Dark Lord. Lucius could honestly say that he almost pitied those who had hurt Harry this way – almost. Lucius promised if he lived he would be at the Dark Lord's side punishing those who had hurt Harry with the Dark Lord.

 

'Yes you will,' agreed the Dark Lord with a slight hiss to his words. 'Lucius, give me your arm,' the Dark Lord said.

 

Lucius held out his left arm revealing the Dark mark that since the end of the war he had hidden from all except Harry and Narcissa. Not even Draco had seen the Dark Mark. Lucius had never talked to Draco about the war seeking to protect him from ignorance if the past was ever dragged up again which had happened to others many time but luckily his money kept the DMLE at bay for the most part at least.

 

Harry, on the other hand, had seen it many times before the young man had ever decided to learn Dark Magic (which he naturally excelled at) when he decided to join his father on the Dark side. Lucius had been expecting Harry to recoil when he saw the Dark Mark bared on his arm. However, at the time Harry hadn't even known what the Dark Mark was which had surprised Lucius because he thought for the Boy Who Lived's own protection he would have been taught how to identify marked Death Eaters.

 

Lucius had initially been surprised that Harry hadn't made note of it on the first time he had seen it but guessed that the boy just didn't want to call attention to it. Or that the Boy Who Lived would have preferred to pretend that he wasn't really sleeping with an ex-Death Eater. Lucius hadn't pushed the subject because he wasn't going to admit to anyone never mind the Boy Who Lived that he was a Death Eater.

 

It wasn't until after the revelations of Gringotts when Lucius had admitted to the boy to being a Death Eater and pointed out that he had seen the Dark Mark. He had been completely surprised that the Boy Who Lived had been kept in the dark so much that Harry had thought the Dark Mark was a creepy tattoo. Lucius had then had to explain what the Dark Mark was and what it meant.

 

The Dark Lord pressed a single devil red finger to the faded grey snake tattoo which had been darkening over the previous months which Lucius hoped would eventually become black as it had been previously. Lucius had realised before he had even begun sleeping with Harry that it was darkening because the Dark Lord was becoming stronger over the last year. Something which both his lover and Snape had confirmed when they had spoken about the possible locations of the Dark Lord and what the Dark Lord was up to.